He took them to Producer Jegede where they recorded the first version of Sasa Hivi (a speed-up version) with plans to do the video already in the pipeline.
However, the reception of the song on the market forced them to drop another slow version of ‘Sasa Hivi’ that eventually became the official song that is available on different streaming platforms until now.
While all this was happening Omondi promised to link the group with Big Afrique Studios founder to secure them a recording and management deal.
“My management will help you with the negotiations to see if you can get a recording deal with Big Afrique studios, they gave us time to write all the things we wanted,”
Tuku Kantu interjected saying; “This is the only meeting I have ever had at KICC and Eric and his time told us how life was going to change for Us,”.
The meeting was successful and the boys were tasked to mention all the things they wanted when they sign the contracts. They were later flown to Eldoret to finalize things.’
That was the first time we ever took a plane from Nairobi to Eldoret. Big Afrique were the first people to put us on a plane…we were surprised by the cars that came to pick us up at the airport (the convoy was heavy). When it came to the deal, we were told everything will be okay, you guys go back then we will start that conversation officially,” the group said.
They were privileged to interact with the Big Afrique boss before they came back to Nairobi. During that time they were given Sh25, 000 each as pocket money.
Reaching Nairobi, the group kept the conversation going with hopes that they will sign the deal as promised but that never happened as it turned out to be a cat-and-mouse game.
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